Re: SCP hangs wile coying large files


Or try last rsync version with --inplace -P -a

catam

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Francis Perron wrote:

Kevin Armstrong wrote:
I'm trying to scp a large file (9 gig) from a Sun server, OS Solaris 8 to
a Sun Ultra 5 using OpenSSH_3.7.1. The file transfer always hangs at or
around 3 gig. I know this is an older version of OpenSSH and this may
have been resolved

If you can't upgrade ssh, and you need the transfert to be secure then I would suggest you open an ssh tunnel and use netcat to transfert the file. I know it sounds weird but that would do it.